Exam 19: Political Stalemate and Rural Revolt, 1865-1900

The spread of mass transit was a major factor in the growth of the suburbs.

In the late nineteenth century, the least likely place you would find a woman spending her leisure time was at:

Which region of the United States had the greatest proportion of urban dwellers?

By 1920, more than half the U.S. population was urban.

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Chester Arthur

The peak decade of immigration was the 1890s.

One of the biggest problems farmers faced was falling commodity prices, caused in part by overproduction.

What do cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever all have in common?

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -William Graham Sumner

Saloons were the poor man's social clubs during the late nineteenth century.

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -William Jennings Bryan

Middle- and upper-class urban families spent much of their leisure time:

Following the 1893 depression, Coxey's Army:

Young, urban women eager for recreation frequented all of the following EXCEPT:

Herbert Spencer:

Discuss the status of the American economy as the nineteenth century came to an end. Be sure to include the issues of currency and the tension between the silverites and the goldbugs.

What distinguished the Farmers' Alliances from the Granger movement?

MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -Charles W. Macune

The exclusion of Chinese immigrants:

Tenement housing gave city dwellers substantially healthier and more comfortable living conditions.